D E R    K R E I S

With Minimal Beats, Heavy Distortion, Dark Synths and Dreamy melodies Der Kreis are Melbourne’s latest queer duo delving into the underbelly of Surf Goth/ Dark Wave Pop with an Electronic and Punk sensibility.

Their debut album out soon is a journey through a Wave of Confusion blessed with a deadly kiss of pop.

Featuring Byron St. John with his guitar and honey-cigarette Vocals & John Pants on synths and doom-ridden bass Der Kreis are an act not to be missed

Listen to their singles Shadows and The Beach here on Soundcloud

**WARNING EXPLICIT HOMOEROTIC LOVE*** “Songs of Rebellion & Cosmic Love”
" a LA-via-Texas collective helmed by Raymon Imag. They make music which draws from a kaleidoscope of influences, skipping from alt-R&B to murky electronica with howling post-rock guitars to Smiths-style indie balladry. Lyrically, upfront, down-and-dirty lyrics about gay sex hide universal themes of insecurity, dysfunction and a need for connection."  
-Rich Morris (Soundblab.com)

Somewhere over the last decade, Ray and Cookie encountered multiple gems in the form of comrade, chosen family, lover, to weave magic sound in time and space. Next chapter: This Boy Named Pony keeps singing his song, telling their story.  Stay tuned, this SoundCloud account to mostly test-drive as we're creating and mixing before official releases. Catch all the rare demos and weirdest shiz from the Pony Brethren here.

NEWS: New album "UNEXPECTED" 1LP for sale.
NEWS; Buy our new 2LP "West View" or download it, Vicious Pink Extended CD, Vicious Pink T-Shirts and all Social Media links here; https://linktr.ee/viciouspink
NEWS, West View, the new Vicious Pink double album comes out on Minimal Wave Records 14th Feb 2022, pre order here. https://www.minimalwave.com/articles/article/vicious-pink-west-view-2lp
NEWS New track Organiclon now on Youtube. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAddLQKUk_o
NEWS, Download some of our music here..https://viciouspink.bandcamp.com
NEWS, Another one of our Live performances on UK TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkwarRZzZE
NEWS - Vicious Pink are featured on Soft Cell's new anthology Keychains and Snowstorms, The Soft Cell Story. The boxset includes 9 CD's, a DVD and book. We have given anecdotes for the book, the book also has unseen photos of VP and SC. VP are also on various recordings and a live show included on the DVD. Check it out.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keychains-Snowstorms-Soft-Cell-Story/dp/B07C5HJ2K8

NEWS : Cccan't you See live performance on UK TV. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAvBF2ZGlH0
NEWS : Our song Cccan't you See is in the 2nd series of Halt and Catch Fire. It is featured in Episode 8, which was aired in the USA on the 19th of July 2015. For those of you who are not familiar with the series here is a brief description..

From AMC Studios, Halt and Catch Fire captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio — a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy — take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it. While charting the changing culture of Texas' Silicon Prairie, tensions build within the group as they attempt to navigate the thin line between visionary and fraud, genius and delusion, and as their drive to do something that matters runs up against their ability to truly innovate. The 10-episode series is created by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers and executive produced by showrunner Jonathan Lisco (Southland) and Gran Via Productions’ Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Rectify, Diner, Rain Man) and Melissa Bernstein (Breaking Bad, Rectify). The series stars Lee Pace (Lincoln, Pushing Daisies) as Joe McMillan, Scoot McNairy (Argo) as Gordon Clark, Mackenzie Davis (Smashed) as Cameron Howe, Kerry Bishé (Argo, Red State) as Donna Clark, and Toby Huss (Cowboys & Aliens) as John Bosworth.

“Kings of the Mountains 1.0″ recorded in 2011. This version of the track is an instrumental, based on the racing ascent and descent by road bicycles of a mountain that has featured in the Tour De France. This was developed from Brian’s experience of cycling some of the mountains that feature in the Grand Tour, Mont Ventoux in Provence, being, especially awe inspiring to him.

Lots of the sounds used are recorded from bikes, mapped out onto samplers, then played on keyboards. The first version of the track was uploaded to Youtube july 2012, to coincide with the start of that Years Tour De France. 

A new mix was made especially for the Tour De France Grand Depart from Leeds UK in 2014. It was recorded in September 2013, featuring Claudio Kron on bike percussion, (no samples). “Kings of the Mountains 2.X” is an extended version with vocals and tempo changes relative to ascent, descent and racing finish. “Kings of the Mountains 2.X” has now been uploaded to Soundcloud.

Ghostly International and Spectral Sound. Of Art & Artifice since 1999.

Mind Alike is the solo project from Melbourne raised and London based musician Jamie Slocombe. After playing in bands 'Love Outside Andromeda' and 'The Blow Waves' from 1999-2013, Jamie moved from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia. It was whilst living in Sydney that the idea of Mind Alike was created. Born out of Jamie’s passion and desire to stay creative, challenge his songwriting and recording abilities and most importantly, to connect through music, Jamie hit record in late 2013. The resulting debut album, 2018’s 'Ultimo Furlough', took 5 years of trial and error, stops and starts and determination to complete. Recorded across Sydney and Perth, it is the first step, simple, yet honest. Continuing with Mind Alike's follow up 2020 release 'High-Rise Ghosts', where a stronger statement and emerging confidence is found. 2023 saw a triptych release of EP's 1 & 2 followed by LP3. Linking together as two independent EP releases that merged into LP3, the content, lyrically explored poor mental health and the impacts to self and to relationships. This lyrical style has continued into Mind Alike's 2024 EP release 'Interloper', but is also juxtaposed with a heavier electronic instrumentation. Diversifying the 'interloper' not just to relational experiences but to musical experiences as well.

https://soundcloud.com/i-digital-boy - my music

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